A Boeing Dreamliner crash on June 12 resulted in 261 deaths, including 52 Britons. Families received the wrong bodies or mixed body parts during repatriation. Coroner Dr. Fiona Wilcox discovered these errors through DNA testing. Aviation lawyer James Healy-Pratt stated that one family received a wrong casket, leading to confusion about the unidentified bodies. Victims' remains were returned in plastic containers instead of coffins, causing distress. The British government noted that body identification falls to Indian authorities and expressed condolences to the affected families.
Family X have no-one to bury because it was the wrong person in their casket. And if it isn't their relative, the question is, who is it in that coffin?
Nobody looked at the remains. We weren't allowed to. They just said, 'This is your mother or father', and gave us a paper label with an ID number on it.
We are investigating the causes of those failures and demanding answers on behalf of these deserving British families.
Formal identification of bodies is a matter for the Indian authorities. We understand that this is an extremely distressing time for the families.
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